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Friday, November 17, 2017

"This incredible animation showcases the ways in with the Center for Popular Democracy builds power to strengthen our collective capacity to envision and win an innovative pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial and economic justice agenda." — Center for Popular Democracy

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco is the King Juan Carlos Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization for Fall 2017. Jiménez-Blanco is a distinguished Spanish art historian, whose main field of interest is the relationship between art and politics in 20th century Spain. Since 1995 she has been a faculty member of the Department of Art History III (Contemporary) of the Complutense University of Madrid, and from 2002 to 2006 she taught at the Departament d’Humanitats of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona.

A play about the love between two people that goes beyond the boundaries of life.
"ELSE and HENRY" received the "Nuestras Voces" award by the MetLife
Foundation, a US national writers competition. And now I have the great
opportunity to DIRECT it in Valencia, Spain.

Our latest short documentary, Taksu, premiered in Vogue, New York City - September 6th, 2017
A film by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger for Alexandra Mor Studio

A botanical seed with physical characteristics nearly identical to elephant ivory, the Tagua Seed offers a real alternative to ivory. By raising awareness and introducing it to the world of luxury jewelry design, it will help preserve the elephant population which is on the brink of extinction as well as provide a sustainable mechanism to communities that maintain and harvest Tagua palms.

Thursday, July 13, 2017

As part of the world-renowned Catalan festival "St. Jordi in New York: Dragons & Books & Roses", visual artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co.), will emblazon the NYU building of Deutsches Haus at NYU with flying dragons, dancing roses, and books, on Friday, April 21st, at dusk (around 8 p.m.).

Video projections by award-winning artists Laia Cabrera & Co. will transform the walls of Deutsches Haus at NYU with a visual evocation of literature and legend in the heart of Greenwich Village. Laia Cabrera & Co's work has been awarded and featured internationally in landmarks like the Tempietto di Bramante in Rome, the historic Georgetown Canal in Washington, D.C., St. John the Divine Cathedral, Times Square, and the White Box Art Gallery in New York.

Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York City - April 21, 2017, with previews on April 18 and 20.

Organized by The Farragut Fund for Catalan Culture in the U.S. and the
Catalan Institute of America with the support of DIPLOCAT as part of
their #BooksAndRoses campaign, and with the additional support of the
Institut Ramon Llull.
Laia Cabrera & Co. and the Farragut Fund are grateful to the following sponsors, Giro Pack and Alsina, for their support.

"Video projection mappings by
award-winning artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera
& Co.) will transform the façade of Deutsches Haus with an
installation in which architecture, drawn illustrations, animations and
movement come together in a visual celebration of literature and the
legend of Sant Jordi in the heart of Greenwich Village." — St Jordi in New York Festival

"As part of the world-renowned Catalan festival “St. Jordi in New York: Dragons & Books & Roses”, visual artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co.), will emblazon the NYU building of Deutsches Haus at NYU with flying dragons, dancing roses, and books, on Friday, April 21st, at dusk (around 8 p.m.).
Deutsches Haus at NYU has joined “St. Jordi in New York: Dragons & Books & Roses” by co-presenting two literary events and turning its building into a canvas for the imagination of Cabrera and Duverger, exploring new ways of using space and the visual imaginary as a tool for storytelling and audience connection.
Video projections by award-winning artists Laia Cabrera & Co. will transform the walls of Deutsches Haus at NYU with a visual evocation of literature and legend in the heart of Greenwich Village. Laia Cabrera & Co’s work has been awarded and featured internationally in landmarks like the Tempietto di Bramante in Rome, the historic Georgetown Canal in Washington, D.C., St. John the Divine Cathedral, Times Square, and the White Box Art Gallery in New York.
LAIA CABRERA & CO. is a team of filmmakers, animators, and visual artists based in New York, co-founded by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger.
This spectacular show will close the April 21st event at the neighboring Maison Française, “Abdellatif Laâbi’s Poems of Love and Struggle,” with translator Donald Nicholson-Smith and scholar Robyn Creswell discussing the new collection “In Praise of Defeat,” published by Archipelago Books." — Deutsches Haus at NYU

Pictures by John Harris

The St. Jordi in New York festival is organized by The Farragut Fund
for Catalan Culture in the U.S. and the Catalan Institute of America,
two non-profit organizations with the shared goal of establishing
cultural bridges between Catalonia and America. The program has been
designed to highlight the importance of translation and world
literature, and has the support of New York City bookstores, libraries,
and cultural institutions, including McNally Jackson, Bluestockings,
Housing Works, Shakespeare & Co., Rizzoli, Logos, the New York
Public Library, the Queens Public Library, PEN America, the Sugar Hill
Storytelling Museum, El Born restaurant, KGB Red Room, Archipelago
Books, Penguin Random House, the Maison Française and Deutsches Haus of
NYU.

Support for the St. Jordi in New York Festival has been
provided by Diplocat, the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia, with
additional support from the Institut Ramon Llull. Support for the video
mapping has been provided by Catalan businesses with subsidiaries in the
U.S.: Alsina Formwork Engineering and Giro Pack, Inc..

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Laia Cabrera & Co. is the recipient of the Silver Telly Awards 2016 (highest honnor), for Outstanding Directing, for the documentary "Haute Jewelry Designer Alexandra Mor: Story & Inspiration", the Bronze Telly Awards 2014 for the video "An Ecosystem Transforming Healthcare Through Technology" - Best Art Direction, the AVA Awards 2013, platinum winner for "How the SHIN-NY Makes Life Better" and gold winner for "Why We Do This Work - Alie Cohen's Story" and the Silver and Bronze Telly Awards 2013 for "How the SHIN-NY Makes Life Better" - Best Animation and "Why We Do This Work - Alie Cohen's Story" - Best Documentary.

Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger are three-time New York Innovative Theater Awards Nominees 2013, 2014 and 2015 for Outstanding Innovative Design (Projection Design, Video-Art and Animations) for The New Stage Theatre Company's production of Night, Cosmicomics and Garden of Delights and Winner for Outstanding Performance Art Production Award 2015 for Night.